"So I Killed Her"
From Daniel Swift’s aptly titled review of The Taker and Other Stories in this weekend’s Financial Times: To call these short stories is perhaps to indulge in a genteel euphemism: these violent little narratives more closely resemble rants, confessions or boasts. A married man likes to run over pedestrians in ...
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Hate Letter Books
One of the more intriguing books coming out of France this fall is Public Enemies, a series of letters between Michel Houellebecq and Bernard-Henri Lévy. As described in the Financial Times: Mr Houellebecq is a novelist who – in the words of the American writer John Updike – has a “thoroughgoing ...
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Javier Marias in the Financial Times
I’m a big Marias fan, and can’t wait for the third volume of Your Face Tomorrow to be translated into English. In the meantime, the Financial Times* has an interesting article on Marias, aka King Xavier I of Redonda: Earlier this month Poison, Shadow and Farewell, a final, third volume of Your Face Tomorrow ...
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